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PRIORITY STANDARD:
Explain and analyze revolutions (including democratic,
scientific, technological, social) as they evolved throughout the enlightenment
and their enduring effects on political, economic and cultural institutions,
to include:
a) Copernican view of the universe and Newton’s
natural laws;
b) tension and cooperation between religion and
new scientific discoveries;
c) impact of Galileo’s ideas and the introduction
of the scientific method as a means of understanding the universe; |
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OBJECTIVE (SWBAT):
Analyze and explain the Copernican view of the universe,
Newton’s natural laws, the tension and cooperation between religion and
new scientific discoveries, and the impact of Galileo’s ideas and the introduction
of the scientific method as a means of understanding the universe.
BIG IDEAS:
New Technologies: The Scientific Revolution gave
Europeans a new way to understand humanity’s place in the universe.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS (SWBATA):
How did scientific discoveries change people’s attitudes
towards natural events and religious faith? |
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KEY VOCABULARY:
Content Vocabulary
geocentric, heliocentric, universal law of gravitation,
rationalism, scientific method, inductive reasoning
Academic Vocabulary
philosopher, sphere
People and Places
Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo
Galilei, Isaac Newton, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, René Descartes,
Francis Bacon |
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